"The take-home message that the study supports, in my opinion, is the importance of a comprehensive feeding evaluation by a certified lactation consultant or speech and language pathologist prior to consenting to a
tongue-tie release procedure," he said.
Jenna is focusing on Thomas having a procedure to correct the
tongue-tie for which he has been referred to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary.
It is this author's experience that in many instances both the
tongue-tie and maxillary lip-tie are found together and each may be a contributing cause of breastfeeding problems.
Tongue-tie can restrict tongue movement, which could lead to difficulties with breast and bottle feeding.
A lack of standardised, objective assessment tools for defining a frenulum as a
tongue-tie, further complicated the debate.
Tongue-tie is a problem that occurs in babies who have a tight piece of skin between the underside of their tongue and the floor of their mouth.
The six-year-old, who has been off the track for six months having had a wind operation, ran in a
tongue-tie for his seasonal bow and if effective again, he looks a horse to follow in this grade
Breast-feeding problems Babies with
tongue-tie aren't able to open their mouths wide enough to latch on to their mother's breast properly.
A first-time
tongue-tie to help his breathing may enable Triggernometry (4.30) to step up on his recent placed efforts.
Trainer Nick Gifford said: 'He has really come to himself recently and the
tongue-tie definitely helped.